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10 quotes from "E.B. White on Dogs"

In "E.B. White on Dogs," the famed author and essayist discusses man's best friend. Here are a few choice samples of White's writing on dogs.

7. 'Sensible' dog

Courtesy of the E.B. White estate

  • By Danny Heitman Contributor

"I bought a puppy last week in the outskirts of Boston and drove him to Maine in a rented Ford that looked like a sculpin. There had been talk in our family of getting a 鈥榮ensible dog鈥� this time, and my wife and I had gone over the list of sensible dogs, and had even ventured once or twice into the company of sensible dogs... But after a period of uncertainty and wasted motion my wife suddenly exclaimed one evening, 鈥極h, let鈥檚 just get a dachshund!鈥欌��

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